Word: theseus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sterlsky, Fear was acted by a cast recruited from students and faculty. Ivan Ilich Borodin was Vassar's own bald-headed president. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken-an experienced amateur actor, who entertains his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day and two years ago performed as Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered...
...mask. He was busy learning and polishing up Greek lines for the Hippolytus of Euripides. An able actor, Dr. MacCracken has appeared before in Vassar plays, has many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins and played Theseus, father of Hippolytus who spurns the love of his stepmother. Phaedra. An actress (Phaedra's nurse) who had played before with Dr. MacCracken was Professor Margaret Floy Washburn, famed psychologist, one of the few female members of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, May 11). Hippolytus was given...